Lunch was served. Sid
Groll called the meeting to order. The minutes from Meeting #6 were approved
without further amendment. A prior amendment from Dan Becker, Utah State Courts,
is included and approved.

Sid Groll (Commission member, Director of POST) and Ken
Wallentine (Administrative Counsel to POST) gave a Corel Presentation describing
POST and its Task Force implementation process. An electronic copy can be
requested from Ken Wallentine or Sandra Kinoshita. Notes are extensive due to no
hard copies being distributed.

Noted from the PowerPoint presentation:

POST does no direct hiring, they train officers hired by
local, county, and state agencies

POST oversees training curriculum in satellite academies

seven satellites

allows 600-700 people to be trained each year

prepares individuals who are interested in a career in
law enforcement to have

the approved training and be more marketable in the law
enforcement job market

POST does screen for background (eg. arrest and behavior),
but not for psychological factors. Some larger agencies screen for
psychological factors, but not all have the means to do so.

During training, if warning flags are evident, POST can
disqualify the person for certification/licensure. Physical constraints,
lying, derogatory remarks, etc. are all basis for disqualification.

POST Council = independent governing board. They give advice
and consent to make changes, as well as act on disciplinary issues.

POST has four functions

basic training

In-service training

complaint investigation

provide leadership & influence

Complaints: POST decides which complaints to follow up on.
POST is a safety net, not a superagency dictator.

POST has a scholarship program for people of color who would
like a career in law enforcement. Scholarship covers academy costs. Please
give nominations to Sid Groll or Ken Wallentine, as well as community groups
as potential partners.

Commission members are invited to a cultural competency
training this Saturday (04/27/02) at 9:30am at Salt Lake Community College.

3. ADVISORY COUNCIL UPDATE (Carolina Webber)

January 23, 2002 meeting

*Justice Zimmerman, Clayton Sims (Minority Bar), and Yvette Diaz
(Governor's Hispanic Advisory Council) discussed the importance of having people
of color on the Judicial Nominating Commissions and efforts to impact the
openings this summer.

*A request for collaboration was accepted, the Advisory Council
formed a subcommittee

*A subcommittee established groundrules/membership guidelines
with the approval of the larger Council. These were later accepted by official
vote.

*Encouraging applicants of color and advocates of communities
of color to apply for a seat on the opening Judicial Nominating Commissions.

*Working with the Minority Bar and the Hispanic Advisory
Council to coordinate efforts.

*Will submit letter to Governor Leavitt supporting 1-3
candidates in each of the opening districts.

Commission members asked Advisory Council members how to
establish mutual communication with communities of color. It was
suggested that the Commission return to each Public Hearing location to report
on the implementation progress and state how testimonies have been used.

Kal Farr suggested including the Chief's
curriculum that will soon be taught. He directly included testimonies from
the Public Hearings

Advisory Council members requested to see the curriculum
that Kal referred to, and also to have Kal talk about this at the May 30,
2002 Advisory Council meeting

4. DIVERSITY PLEDGE-UTAH
MINORITY BAR ASSOCIATION

Clayton Sims, UMBA President described the pledge (included
in meeting materials)

The UofU Law School and BYU Law School have both officially
supported the pledge

UMBA will now contact SLC law firms to ask them to sign on

The Commission voted to support the pledge, similar to the
Utah law schools

5. ANNOUNCEMENTS

Research Issues, Ron Gordon of the Utah Sentencing Commission

dialogue on the Utah Sentencing Commission's
research study on Aggravating and Mitigating Factors and the Juvenile data
limitations. The Juvenile Sentencing Guidelines went into effect in 1997 and
the Juvenile Court started tracking this data with a separate field in their
database. At some point, data collection ceased and there is only 18 months
of data available.

The reason data has stopped being collected: an
administrative decision in the Courts eliminated the pop-up field. The
reasoning was an issue of time (for staff).

Commission members discussed the role of the
Commission as one of accountability. It was decided that the Courts
should be made aware of the issue and for the Commission to be a
body who will follow up on their progress.

Action Items

In response to the available cultural competency
trainings in POST, but the lack of usage/requests: Sid Groll and Kal
Farr will report back to the Commission this summer with
recommendations of how to effectively assist the training efforts,
an outline of what has been done to address this and strategies to
increase the usage. At that time, the Commission can vote to endorse
the effort(s).

In response to the lack of data collection in the
Juvenile Courts, Myron March will follow up on the Courts'
reasoning. He stated that the new CARE database/system will likely
envelope those fields, but will report on the full details at a
future meeting.

Message from Judge Tyrone Medley, by Justice Michael
Zimmerman

Judge Medley's
absences at meetings has been due to a terminal illness in his
family, he continues to be fully dedicated to the efforts. He
sincerely apologizes for his absences.

2. Serving as the 'management
body'>,
leadership transition team for the larger group. Identifies direction of the
Commission, centralizes communication, and maintains the continuity from the
Task Force to the Commission.

3. Ask the seven community/Advisory Council representatives to
appoint a liaison to attend the Operations Committee meetings (they can
identify someone today, when they meet 15 minutes after every Commission
meeting).

Discuss the planning of a retreat

Right now we are in the transition phase. We are
measuring involvement from the perspective of the agencies. The
retreat will begin the next phase. The Commission will take
ownership. At the retreat, we will discuss the progress (or lack of)
of implementation and set goals for next year.

2. We will select date at May Commission meeting. Looking at
June or July.

Commission Leadership

Discuss the need for Commission leadership
Request that suggestions/nominations be submitted to Sandra
Kinoshita

May Meeting Date

Members present opted to keep our regular meeting
schedule of the fourth Wednesday of each month. Some members present
could not meet the following week, and the absence of members
prompted us to maintain regular schedule.

6. ADJOURNMENT: (Sid Groll)

There being no further business to discuss, the meeting
adjourned at 1:30p.m. Thank you very much to those who were able to stay
beyond our meeting time.

Special thank you to Sid Groll and Ken Wallentine for their
hospitality and informative presentation. A thank you card will go to
Clayton Sims for his presentation.

NEXT MEETING - WEDNESDAY May 22, 2002

:

at the Division of Youth Corrections facilities from 11:30am
- 1:00pm. Meeting Reminder Postcards will be sent to you shortly, with all
meeting details.
Youth Corrections will present their implementation efforts,
the Juvenile Disproportionate Minority Confinement Committee will report on
their progress, the Bar's
Deportation Subcommittee will update on their progress, and Russ Van Vleet
will discuss research implications of the Racial Profiling bill and other
issues.